Signal readout structure for an image sensing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasanori Ogura, Fumihiro Inui, Tetsuya Itano
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Abstract
An image sensing apparatus includes a photoelectric converter having a plurality of pixels covered by a color filter composed of a plurality of colors, a plurality of common readout units adapted to sequentially output signals from the plurality of pixels, a time division multiplex (TDM) unit for time division multiplexing signals from the plurality of common readout units, and a readout control unit for reading the signals from the plurality of pixels to the common readout units in such a way that signals from pixels covered by color filters of the same color are continuously multiplexed.
Claims12
An image sensing apparatus comprising:
- a photoelectric converter having a plurality of pixels covered by color filters composed of a plurality of colors;
- a plurality of common readout units adapted to sequentially output signals from the plurality of pixels,
- a time division multiplex (TDM) unit adapted to perform time division multiplexing on signals from the plurality of common readout units so as to output time division multiplexed signals;
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- a read-out control unit adapted to read out the signals from the plurality of pixels to the common readout units so that signals from pixels covered with color filters of the same color are multiplexed continuously.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.